For one Confederate surgeon, the song "brings to mind the memory of friends who loved it — friends, the light of whose lives were extinguished in blood, whose spirit were quenched in violence".
The first is that of David Burns, who owned the ground on which the White House stands before selling it to the federal government in May 1791, and whose spirit has been seen in Oval Office.
In fact, the truth - in many cases - is stranger than this fiction, in a league whose spirit lived on after its protracted merger with the NBA was completed in 1976.
Like the dead in "Poltergeist" whose spirits rise to strangle the suburban community built on their graves, his anonymous corpses emerge from their police-blotter ignominy and extract a moment of recognition, a twinge of fellow feeling.
"I hope you're ashamed of yourselves," one person wrote, "for your greediness in a season whose spirit is supposed to be giving".
Reprinted newspaper fragments, handwriting and smears of color that evoke a crime scene appear in the print next to a sketchily drawn rural scene that refers to another murder: that of the woman who once inhabited the farmhouse where Ms. Snyder and her husband were living in Pennsylvania, and whose spirit she felt was haunting them.
Even Uli, the four-foot wooden ancestor statue from New Ireland in the South Pacific, whose spirit Breton claimed inspired his "art magique ", was left behind.
I once took such a stroll with an elder of the Yankuntjatjara tribe called Toby Naninga, an aging man who has since died and whose spirit, in tribal belief, has returned to its place of origin, to the northeast, near Angas Downs.
Later that year, he warned, presciently, "it is of the highest importance that the people lately in rebellion be not permitted to build up another 'peculiar institution' whose spirit is in conflict with the fundamental principles of our political system".
A mausoleum of a famous Sufi saint, Auliya, who lived in the 13th century, this is the living, breathing embodiment of a centuries-old Delhi, whose spirit endures in this area, notwithstanding the modern trappings that now surround it.
